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" Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes... "
Essays - Page 61
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 333 pages
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A Historical Guide to Ralph Waldo Emerson

Joel Myerson - 2000 - 336 pages
...of the gulf, in the darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes; . . . Why then do we prate of self-reliance? Inasmuch as...rather of that which relies, because it works and is. (CW, 2:40) Emerson emphasizes organic process over final accomplishment, and as in his more conventional...
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Zarathustra’s Dionysian Modernism

Robert Gooding-Williams - 2001 - 444 pages
...gulf, in the darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all...with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Self-Reliance In the Introduction to this book I claimed that when Nietzsche wrote...
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Emerson As Spiritual Guide: A Companion to Emerson's Essays for Personal ...

156 pages
...gulf, in the darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all...rather of that which relies because it works and is. Self-reliance is reliance on "the ever-blessed One," the supreme cause. All things are real by virtue...
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Spielräume nutzen: Überlegungen zum sozialpädagogischen Arbeitsfeld ...

Christoph Blomberg - 2003 - 310 pages
...vorherzusagen (ebd.). Aber genau das ist für Emerson nicht möglich, das ist .Ankern im Treibsand', denn: „This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes;...with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside" (271,Herv. im Text)7. wohl oder übel als sein Schicksal anerkennen muss; dass er, obwohl das unendliche...
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I Am Dynamite: An Alternative Anthropology of Power

Nigel Rapport - 2003 - 308 pages
...to above, ends as follows: 'This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame' (1981: 152-3). And this does seem true; when it comes to that cluster of concepts which have been identified...
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A Dream Too Wild: A Book of Meditations from the Writings of Ralph Waldo ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 pages
...been able to translate the world into some particular language? What language does your soul speak? Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases...rather of that which relies, because it works and is. —SELF-RELIANCE Do you find exhilaration and energy in "the shooting of the gulfj' in the transition...
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Secular Revelations: The Constitution of the United States and Classic ...

Mitchell Meltzer - 2005 - 216 pages
...predictable opposition to this forever diving and reappearing, we know Emerson was perfectly clear: "This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes;...the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside." Emerson's extreme commitment to motion and change was in part, no doubt, a response to emerging material...
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Compensation and Self-Reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 pages
...gulf, in the darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past; turns all riches to poverty, all...rogue; shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Why then did we prate of self-reliance ? Inasmuch as the soul is present there will be power not confident but...
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Democratic Humanism and American Literature

Harold Kaplan - 336 pages
...a past to a new state. . . . This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all...the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside." No words could better express the revolutionary readiness of Emerson's thought, and his enthusiasm...
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Beyond Resistance: The Future of Freedom

Robert Fletcher - 2007 - 208 pages
...ends as follows (1981: 152-3): This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame. Analysts, from Freud, through Marx and Durkheim, to Heidegger and Homi Bhabha, degrade the notion of...
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